Wichita eagle., 1887-03-20

a steam engine moved by perpetual motion:
He seems never to lack for q new idea, ana
he has vocabulary equal to worcester
and Webster boiled down and filtered
through Carlyle's "Sartor Resartus. j..
His private conversation is as full OF
meat rs his senatorial speeches, and when
he takes every sentence makes you think
and every void weighs a pound. He is a
man of broad reading, and he draws his
illustrations from the antediluvian periods
of geology In one sentence and in the next
takes metaphor from the classics OF the
English novelist.
The London papers call him narrow
minded. but he is one of the breadest
minded statesmen I know of, and he is,
taken altogether one of the queerest COM
binatiens ever bound up within a human
skin. He is gentleman IS regards his
dress and manners. He does not believe
in that phase Of political demagogery
which prohibits the statesman from wear
ing dress coat, which makes him 60 about
Washington like slOven,. aRd which
leads him to look at all appropriations
through the wrong end of the opera glass.
ingalls, is one of The best dressed men in
Washington. His clothes fit him like a
glove. and his linen looks as though he
owned Chinese laundry. He is tall, thin
and tightly made He stands as straight as
a Lake Superior oak. and line dropped
from his we'll combed iron gray head
would touch the heels of his polished boots
He wears black diagonal coat, which is
always tightly buttoned aroond his long.
thin frame, and out of the breast pocket OF
which invariably peeps silk handkerchief
Of the brightest colors. He wears gold
spectacles and gold eye glasses, and there
is pair of gold glasses usually hanging
upon his chest, or making yellow circle
in front of him as Ingalls, nerveusly
whirls them about while he listens TO
the speeches of his brother senators. Sen
ator Ingalls, is, should say. six feet tall,
and lie never maintains anything else than
an erect position. Even sitting he has bis
shoulders well thrown back and his chest
out, and he never doubles himself up like a
bow. as does Senator Evarts, nor sits upon
his spine. as Senator Edmunds. He has a
curious head II is long and thin, and it
always makes me think of the portrait Of
John Randolph, of Roanoke. which hangs
in the Corcoran gallery. The contours of
the heads of Randolph and Ingalls, are the
same, and the men are alike in many points
of character Ingalls, is, however, a broader
man than was Randolph, and he is free
from that phase Of insanity which entered
so largely into Randolph's actions
Senator Ingalls, has high forehead
which ather recedes to the poiut where
his thick iron gray hair begins. His sharp,
black eyes look out from under narrow
brows His check bones are high and the
lines which mark them are very plain
His complexion is rather sallow, and he
wears little iron gray mus!ache and
gOatec below his straight. thin nose. He
speaks in 4 clear. articuIate voice which is
tipged with the nasal t~ang betraying his
Yankee origin. He never rants during his
speeches and he never looses his head. He
does not talk TO the gallery and still the
gallery always listens when he speaks. He
is the most sarcastic of the United States
senators. and there is no senator who is
more feared upon the floor. Ingalls, knows
the weak points of every one of his broth
ers. and his brother senator's know that he
will not shrink from exposing them if the
occasion den. aids IT,